Maggie Brown, MS, ELS is Senior Production Editor at PLoS In a humanitarian crisis a population’s needs are great and many–for medical attention, shelter, safe water and adequate sanitation, food, and security. Disasters that occur

Maggie Brown, MS, ELS, is Senior Production Editor at PLoS. Current efforts toward delivering lifesaving medicines and other interventions to developing countries are exciting and in many cases impressive in their outcomes. But for many

In his blog below Gavin Yamey, currently undertaking a Kaiser Family Foundation-funded project in global health reporting in Sudan and East Africa, writes from Nairobi about how the number of toilets is crucial in creating